Serious unclassified road crash in Horsham RH13 on 21 July 2015 at 07:15 involving a Volvo XC60
A Volvo XC60 hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Horsham at 07:15 on Tuesday 21 July 2015. A 21-year-old female pedestrian was seriously injured.
It happened in daylight in fine weather on a dry slip road with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.
- Severity
- Serious
- Date
- 21 Jul 2015
- Tuesday, 07:15
- Vehicles
- 1
- Volvo XC60
- Casualties
- 1
- 1 seriously injured
Location of the crash
Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.03265, longitude -0.26145, in the RH13 postcode district.
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- 1 crash
- Serious
Collision details
Basic information
- Reference
- 2015471504225
- Council area
- Horsham
- Police force
- Sussex
- Police attended the scene
- No
- Highway authority
- West Sussex
Road and location details
- First road class
- Unclassified
- Road type
- Slip road
- Speed limit
- 30 mph
- Urban or rural
- Rural
- Trunk road
- Non-trunk road
Junction information
- Junction type
- T or staggered junction
- Junction control
- Give way or uncontrolled
- Second road class
- B
- Second road number
- 2110
Pedestrian crossing information
- Crossing facilities
- No physical crossing facility within 50 m
Environmental conditions
- Light conditions
- Daylight
- Weather
- Fine, no high winds
- Road surface
- Dry
Enhanced collision data
- How severity was recorded
- Judged by the reporting police officer
- Estimated chance it was serious
- 97%
- Estimated chance it was slight
- 3%
The 6 nearest recorded crashes
The nearest, 12 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 7 October 1989.
Slight
Car crash on the A279 in Horsham, 7 October 1989
12 m awayRef 198947NA90596
Slight
Vauxhall Nova crash on the A279 in Horsham, 18 October 1991
12 m awayRef 199147NA10567
Slight
Car crash on the A279 in Horsham, 11 August 1980
13 m awayRef 198047NA00602
Slight
Car crash on the A279 in Horsham, 8 January 1981
19 m awayRef 198147NA10010
Slight
Leyland crash on the A279 in Horsham, 3 March 1992
21 m awayRef 199247NA20130
Slight
Volkswagen Golf crash on the A279 in Horsham, 9 October 1993
22 m awayRef 199347NA30523
Vehicles involved (1)
Vehicle 1: Volvo XC60
Car
- Manoeuvre
- Slowing or stopping
- Travelling from
- North East
- Travelling to
- South
- Position at junction
- Approaching junction or waiting or parked at junction approach
- First point of impact
- Front
- Left-hand drive
- No
- Driver sex
- Male
- Driver age
- 48 years
- Engine capacity
- 2,400 cc
- Fuel or propulsion
- Diesel
- Vehicle age
- 3 years
Casualties (1)
Casualty 1: Pedestrian
SeriousFemale, aged 21, hit by vehicle 1 (Volvo XC60)
- Pedestrian location
- In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
- Pedestrian movement
- Crossing from driver's offside
Data source
This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 2015471504225 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Horsham road accident statistics for 2015.